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Following a litany of conferences and calls that stress the urgency to address climate change, there’s growing interest and investments in nature to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Protecting and restoring natural ecosystems, such as forests, grasslands, wetlands, farmlands and oceans, could remove at least 10 gigatons of CO2 per year by 2050, according to […]
The team is working with local authorities and civil society to find fresh solutions to the young nation’s environmental challenges, one reused plastic bottle at a time.
KATHMANDU — Nepal’s pioneering landscape-level ecosystem restoration initiative, aimed at creating dispersal space for tigers, has been globally recognized for its efforts to fight and reverse ecosystem degradation. Yet sustaining the success is rife with hurdles such as infrastructure development, human-wildlife conflict, political instability and climate change uncertainties, experts caution. Launched in 2004, the Terai […]
Rich countries should increase their spending on green projects in poor countries.
KATHMANDU, Feb 13: A local initiative in Nepal, aimed at protecting and restoring the Terai Arc Landscape, has been named one of the seven UN World Restoration Flagships. This accolade comes in recognition of the project's success in revitalizing 66,800 hectares of forest, dramatically enhancing biodiversity, and significantly benefiting local communities.